Photographic-process basket.



M. S. PELTON.

PHOTOGRAPHIG PROCESS BASKET. APPLIOATION rum) 00u21, 1911.

1,027,626. Patented May 28, 1912.

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M. S. PELTON.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS BASKET.

APPLIOATION FILED 001221, 1911.

Patented May 28, 1912.

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UNITED sTATEs yPATENT oEEroE.

MYRON* S. PELTON, OF FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA.

PHOTOGRAPHIC-PROCESS BASKET.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MYRoN S. PELTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Folsom, in the county of Sacramento and State of California,have invented new and useful Improvements in Photographic- ProcessBaskets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to photographic apparatus.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, substantialand inexpensive device for the reception of sensitized media, such asphotographic plates, films or cards; to provide a receptacle for saidmedia or photographic plates whereby they may be substantiallyseparated, equally spaced and easily adjusted in position; to provide areceptacle or basket for photographic apparatus, which is made of amaterial not readily susceptible to the action of various acids andchemicals in which they may be immersed; and to provide a photographicplate or card basket capable of being readily disassembled and closelypacked for shipment or storage, and the parts of which basket are sodesigned asl to cause the structure to readily interlock and beselfsupporting without the addition of any extraneous fasteningappliances or devices.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is aperspective view of the basket assembled. Fig. 2 is a side elevation ofthe basket parts in position for assembling. Fig. 3 is a plan section.

It is a desideratum to devise and provide a light but substantial andportable receptacle or basket, wherein may be arranged in suitable stylea plurality of photographic plates, cards or films, and by which basketthe cards may be immersed in a developing solution and permitted toremain a suiiicient length of time to produce the desired state ofdevelopment of the plates or cards. After this the basket may be bodilyremoved with its contained cards and placed in another solution, forinstance, a fixing bath, and after a suiiicient period of immersion inthe fixing bath, the basket with its photographic media can be bodilylifted and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 21, 1911.

Patented May 28,1912.

serial No. 655,895.

placed in the wash, there to remain a desired length of time.

In providing a vdevice of this character, it is essential to providemeans rendering the article capable of use, either with glass negatives,flexible films, or ordinary postcards. Particularly in designing thearticle is it necessary to provide means for supporting the postcardsand films in vertical position, spaced sufliciently from each other toallow a free flow of fluid between the plates; the design of the partsof the basket being intended to prevent lateral buckling, bending orcurling of t-he card or film after it has been inserted in the basket.

To accomplish the several ends of the present invention, I have shownthe device as comprising two parallel spaced panels 2 and 3, havingsuitable cross-sectional areas, permitting them to be made of vonly thetopmost and lowermost horizontal row of pins or supports would benecessary but a particular use to which the present invention is adaptedis the development and other photographic processing of films and cards,which, being flexible, when vertically disposed on an edge, would nothave sufficient inherent stability to stand erect without bendinglaterally into contact with the other cards in the basket. It is forthis reason that I have provided av series of horizontal rows of theprojections 4L; these rows being designed to support each independentcard or film against lateral bending movement.

The upper and lower corners of the side panels 2 and 3 are each providedwith suit-- able ears or bearings 5, having perforations 6 through whichmay be inserted transverse removable spacing rods or bars 7 and 8;

the uppermost bars 7 being reduced at their extremities, as at 9, toproject through the ears or bearings 5.y rllhe lowermost spacing bars 8are shown inthe present instance as connected by a pair of cross bracesS, each of which has a pluralit-y of upwardly projecting cones 10, thepins of which aline in the planes of certain vertical rows of theprojections 4 on the sides 2 and 3.

The lower ends of the panels 2 and 3 are projected downwardlysuiliciently to form feet 11, which are perforated as at 12 to receiveupwardly curved hooks 13 on the end of the bottom frame or bars S.

In order to form an automatic interlock in the basket when the hooks 13at the ends of the frame bars 8 are inserted through the perforations 12in the side panels 2 and 3, small inwardly projecting bosses 14 ,willengage downwardly projecting nibs 15 formed on the lower surface of thecross bars 8.

As before stated, it is desirable to manufacture the baskets of somematerial which will have inherent stability and rigidity, and will beable to withstand the action of the chemicals in which it may beimmersed. The interlock of the parts of the basket, when assembled, iscaused by the slight spring of the feet 11 when their bosses 14 engagewith the nibs 15 as the upper ends of the side panels 2 and 3 arespread, so as to permit the insertion of the transverse spreading orspacing bars 7. This interlock is diagrammatically illustrated in Fig.2.

In order to prevent the accidental dislocation or withdrawal of any ofthe plates or cards, after they are placed in the basket, I haveprovided a strap or locking frame 16, which is hinged, as at 17, uponone of the transverse spreader bars 7, and which is adapted to be swungopen or swung downward to extend across the upper edge of the plates orcards; the opposite ends of the strap frame 1G, or lock, beingdownwardlyturned and formed with snap hooks 19, which may spring from the oppositetransverse spreader bar, thus preventing the accidental movement ot anyof the plates or cards in the basket.

The lower edge of the strap frame 16 is provided with a plurality ofinverted cones 18, the points of which aline with the points of thecones in the vertical rows on the sides 2 3.

The device here disclosed is light, durable, acid proof and may bedisassembled or knocked down for packing or storage, and can be readilyassembled by any person without requiring skill. It may also be made insuch sizes as will enable the processing of a large number of photographor other sensitized devices.

The devices forming guides and supports for the cards may be shaped orarranged as conditions to be met may require.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is- 1. A photographic process basket, comprising spaced,parallel, readily detachable panels and transverse spacing barsextending therebetween, and readily detachable, said panels and barsbeing provided with a plurality of spaced, inwardly directed conicalpoints.

2. A photographic process basket comprising spaced, parallel sidepanels, having vertical and horizontal rows of inwardly directed conicalpoints, between which may be inserted and evenly spaced sensitizedphotographic media, spreading bars at the upper ends of the side panels,and a bottom frame having upwardly turned, conical points in the planesof the points on the side panels.

3. A photographic process basket comprising spaced, parallel sidepanels, having vertical and horizontal rows, of inwardly directedconical points, between which may be inserted and evenly spacedsensitized photographic media, spreading bars at the upper ends oit' theside panels, and a bottom frame having upwardly turned, conical pointsin the planes of the points on the side panels, said bottom .tramehaving upwardly turned hooks on its extremities engaging andinterlocking with the side panels.

4. A basket adapted to receive photographic media, and carry the samethrough photographic processes, said basket being` composed of aflexible, chemical resisting material, said basket having verticalspaced side walls, the inner surfaces of which are provided withinwardly directed, conical points arranged. in horizontal and verticalrows, a bottom frame separating the lower ends of the panels and havinghooks engaging the same and tending to throw the upper ends of t-hepanels toward each other, and spreading bars transversely supported inand separating the inwardly pressed ends oit the panels.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MYRON S. PELTON.

Witnesses Gr. A. BAUER, J. T. Braces, Jr.

Copies of lthis patent may ce obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

